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Why do people take 5-7 years to get a PhD? What are they actually doing
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:05 PM Author: 180 community account plaza Is there no structure to this shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32615996) |
Date: February 13th, 2017 10:07 PM Author: Free-loading hyperactive hell Lots of Starbucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616004) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:13 PM Author: 180 community account plaza For real though. Theyre just writing a paper that takes them years? Do they draw it out to avoid real work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616060) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:16 PM Author: Free-loading hyperactive hell I have a phd. There were lots of trips to Starbucks interspersed with reading and writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616089) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:13 PM Author: soul-stirring double fault tedious, mind-numbing 'research'. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616066) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:15 PM Author: Avocado federal chapel degenerate Usually take classes for first 2 years. Plus you sometimes have to TA classes. Also you usually work basically as an employee for your advisor. He gets grants from the government to research and produce shit, and it's the PhD students who do that actual work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616074) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:16 PM Author: 180 community account plaza Yeah but then what are they doing after the first 2 years besides TAing? I had TAs that were late 30s obviously just chilling enjoying their life in no hurry to ever get a real job (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616087) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:16 PM Author: Avocado federal chapel degenerate edited, see above (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616090) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:15 PM Author: Fishy Beady-eyed Location Little structure and oftentimes just waiting for funding or getting by on little bits of it that slow research Teaching is a huge time sink also |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:18 PM Author: Overrated Filthpig No idea man my 34 year old cousin has been pursuing a PhD in public policy for like 7 years. He finished his coursework in like year 2. Pretty sure he just masturbates all day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616105) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:19 PM Author: motley translucent senate They almost ALL FUCK UP a year or two on something STUPID they could have and SHOULD HAVE fixed early on
OH, I need ANOTHER yet for a METHODS COURSE LOL!
these people never want to do anything |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:20 PM Author: 180 community account plaza Lol. Seems 180 but they must die as paupers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616116) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:19 PM Author: Soggy Tan Lodge Dopamine Sipping lattes Realizing academics is flame that requires mega striving and networking and shit-eating for the barest hoap of maeking it Panicking about #2 Researching law school |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:53 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone den (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32617064) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:19 PM Author: razzmatazz twinkling trailer park hominid in technical fields they’re almost always people who were admitted because they were smart and could take tests well but who can't put together ideas of their own. so they delay until they put something together that’s not so shitty that their advisor won’t sign off on it. advisor will often just give them a pet topic to work on out of sympathy.
in non-technical fields they’re incompetent people and people who are kicking the can down the road before they’re forced to admit that they can’t get a good academic job, and they just put everything away to go teach prep school kids with or without having finished their degrees.
five years is generally the minimum though. |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:20 PM Author: transparent karate Wasting time. If it takes you that long to do a PhD you shouldn't be doing a PhD. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616117) |
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Date: February 14th, 2017 2:46 PM Author: Fishy Beady-eyed Location 5-6 years is median (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32621269) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:20 PM Author: motley translucent senate I loved TAing, jfc, I absolutely gave better grades to hot students
My biggest moment was seeing one of them out at a bar off campus in a different city and she confessed to thinking I was cute and had the goal to hook up with a TA; I made out with her in the bar but did not go further--this was 9-12 mo after I was her TA |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:22 PM Author: 180 community account plaza Lol i remember all the girls in UG wanted to fuck almost all the male TAs. They would always talk about this. Even if they were average looking or short, something about them being in a position of "authority" attracted women. Women are insane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616148) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:23 PM Author: motley translucent senate Woah!
Cr, friend!
very on point--I was also not as weird as the other TAs so that helped, god she wasn't hot or anything but was cute and bubbly and blah blah |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:20 PM Author: Laughsome halford pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616125) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:21 PM Author: Fantasy-prone Address Regret Outside of hard sciences it's a joke. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616133) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 10:26 PM Author: Mewling Whorehouse Half-breed 2 years of classes 2 years of research (need funding and sometimes has to stay/live on site) 6months-1 year to write |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:04 PM Author: Heady anal locus dog poop If you have shit time management skills like me, waiting for your model organism babbies to make babbies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32616612) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:10 PM Author: Topaz elite public bath roommate In the sciences it takes time to build a body of work that makes you competitive with the cohort that's graduating
In other words it should probably be 3 or 4 years instead of 5 or 6, and that is the case in Europe for many, but it's hard to change. Probably will slowly be pushed that way if there are no jobs forever.
also yeah it's nice to be unaccountable |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:50 PM Author: twisted bronze generalized bond Have a phd in statistics
Year 1 is core theory courses (plus a couple applied / elective courses) After year 1 you take your comprehensive exams
Year 2-3 you take more electives, courses and seminars in your focus area while also TAing / RAing, during this time you find an advisor you want to work with.
Hopefully by end of 2nd year you start working with your advisor doing RA work and by year 3 start your thesis.
Year 3-5 is mostly research, reading papers, writing, TA work
After you graduate you then you fail the academic job market and get a cool job but wonder if it was even worth it. |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:52 PM Author: House-broken light mood fieking job market meat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32617061) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:54 PM Author: lilac exhilarant gunner advisors matter a lot too I imagine
Some advisors are SHIT and give students no actual advice or helpful input, so they could end up wasting a year going in a completely useless direction with their research
It's worse for physical sciences because you have to spend time doing field or lab work, which requires its own set of hoops to get funding/time for in many cases.
Also people can get fucked by their actual instruments. Our IRMS exploded? Sorry no money to replace that, you'll have to jockey for very limited use of the one in another lab and twiddle your thumbs. |
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Date: February 14th, 2017 2:48 PM Author: Fishy Beady-eyed Location what's ur throwaway (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32621284) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:53 PM Author: ebony garrison kitty cat Research, TA, side hustle if your funding sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32617068) |
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Date: February 13th, 2017 11:58 PM Author: aquamarine concupiscible property dingle berry failing numerous french and german exams (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32617104) |
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Date: February 14th, 2017 2:48 PM Author: Slate legend church The classes are normally only 2 yrs right? Seems insane to me that it takes 3 yrs to write a thesis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3525322&forum_id=2#32621285) |